"Make Things rather than Persons the subjects of conversations."
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"Few persons realize how much of their happiness, such as it is, is dependent upon their work."
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"I liked being a person. I wanted to keep at it."
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"Because no one thought she was a person, she had no one to really talk to."
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"An unimaginative person can neither be reverent nor kind."
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"The press always ends up being much nicer than I expect. A lot of times they say something snarky about you, but then you meet them in person and they couldn't be nicer."
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"When you are a thankful person it releases joy."
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"I like to work and am a focused person."
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"Only a person who considers himself too good for you is good enough."
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"We hit it off immediately, especially Helene, who was a 'swallow-life-in-big-gulps' kind of person."
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"I often don't feel like the person I look like."
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"My goal in life has been to be a songsmith, not a pop person."
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"I have long observed that the act of writing is viewed, by some, as an elite and otherworldly act, all the more so if a person isn't paid for what she writes."
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"Wherever it is you make your home, there is always this other place, this other person, calling to you. Come to me. Come back."
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"Every person, on coming to the knowledge of himself, is not only urged to seek God, but is also led as by the hand to find Him."
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"There's a general impulse to distract the grieving person - as if you could."
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"Dreams change, yes, that makes sense, but I didn't know dreams could hide inside a person."
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"Those things which are sacred, are to be imparted only to sacred persons; and it is not lawful to import them to the profane until they have been initiated in the mysteries of the science."
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"I'm a people person...who drinks."
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"When any society says that I cannot marry a certain person, that society has cut off a segment of my freedom."
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